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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 176 He held a commission as Major in the Black war in the Sevier County militia. In November, 1867, he removed to Manti and was appointed to the offices of Hawk County Clerk and Recorder and County Superintendent of Schools, which positions he held for sixteen years to the entire satisfaction of the people. In 1877 was appointed Bishop of the North Ward, Manti, and is the present incumbent. Is president of the Manti Co-operative Mercantile Institution since 1876 and Land Attorney since 1883. Bishop Reid has been an active, hard worker; is a of large experience unusual sound judgment, thorough in all business arrangements, keen, energetic and wide awake to the interests of the people over whom he presides and in whose hearts he lives. Being true to his earnest religious convictions, he married November 23, 1869, Mary Adelaide M. Cox, of Manti, and his had by her four children, viz.: Clare W., man Edgar «T, Mary A. and Alice. WILLIAM B., of T. r>lCHi:Y, Manti, son of William B. (Adair), born in Knox, Yuba County, Miss., May 17, 1840. His father was a planter but not. a believer in slavery. He joined the Mormon church and moved to Nanvoo in 1816. He was engaged in missionary work many years in Mississippi and to the Cherokee Nation in Florida, learned their language, married Nancy Ridge, the* chiefs daughter, and became a member of the nation. About a year later his wife died and he returned to Mississippi and married the mother of our subject. The family came to Utah in |T* and Margaret A. 1848 and in the fall <>f 1841) they came with the first comto Manti and passed through all the hardships and privations of those early days. The mother died in Manti in 1852 ami the father in 1878 in Parowan. When William B. grew up he engaged in freighting to the mining camps in Nevada fifteen years. After the railroads were built he engaged in farming and now has a nice farm, also a comfortable stone residence, one of the first built after moving out of the fort. In both the Indian wars he took his part. In 1862 he went to California, and in pany |
